Some of the images that were uploaded to early scam baiting websites have been described as a form of schadenfreude[7] or reinforcing racist stereotypes.
[12] In May 2004, a Something Awful forum poster asked for advice on how to deal with a bogus escrow scam from a buyer on eBay.
[14] In 2005, a member of 419eater.com posed as an aid worker at a refugee camp on the Chad/Sudan border in order to bait a trio of Nigerian 419 scammers.
[15] In February 2011, the Belgian television show Basta portrayed, with hidden cameras, how a scammer was fooled during a meeting with baiters, raising the stakes by involving a one-armed man, two dwarves and a pony.
In the first segment scambaiters persuaded a scammer to travel from London to a remote location in Cornwall by train and taxi to meet a victim (played by a baiter) and collect payment for a gold deal.
In the second segment a female scammer met with two scambaiters posing as victims in Trafalgar Square to pass them a fake check.